CAPSULE: CITY NINJA [TOU QING KE] (1985)
AKA Ninja Holocaust; Rocky’s Love Affairs DIRECTED BY: Yeung Chuen Bong or Liu Li Shen FEATURING: Cassanova Wong, Chen Wei Man, Chia Che Fu? PLOT: Two men, one a boxing champion and one a destitute...
View ArticleCAPSULE: JESUS CHRIST VAMPIRE HUNTER (2001)
DIRECTED BY: Lee Demarbre FEATURING: Phil Caracas, Maria Moulton, Murielle Varhelyi PLOT: The Son of God recruits retired Mexican wrestler “Santos” to help him defeat the vampires who are preying on...
View ArticleCAPSULE: DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME (2011)
DIRECTED BY: Tsui Hark FEATURING: Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Bingbing Li, Chao Deng PLOT: When court officials begin spontaneously bursting into flames as her coronation approaches, Empress Wu suspects a...
View Article129. LOVE EXPOSURE (2008)
Ai no Mukidashi “Nothing is more important than love.”–Shion Sono on the theme of Love Exposure DIRECTED BY: Shion Sono FEATURING: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Atsurô Watabe,...
View ArticleCAPSULE: RETURN OF THE KUNG FU DRAGON (1976)
Ju Ma Pao DIRECTED BY: Yu Chick-Lim FEATURING: Polly Kwan (as Sun Kuan Rin Feng), Cheung Lik, Li Chung-Chien, Hsiao Wang PLOT: A teenage princess learns kung fu so that she can return from exile inside...
View Article184. NINJA CHAMPION (1985)
“The script… for one thing, it would be written in twice translated English. So we would be sitting there looking at it saying ‘what the hell does this mean?’ for one thing. And then Godfrey would sort...
View ArticleCAPSULE: BUSHIDO MAN (2013)
Bushido Man: Seven Deadly Battles DIRECTED BY: Takanori Tsujimoto FEATURING: Mitsuki Koga, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi PLOT: A martial arts master eats meals based on the diet of his next opponent so he can...
View ArticleLIST CANDIDATE: MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE (1977)
DIRECTED BY: Jimmy Wang Yu FEATURING: Jimmy Wang Yu, Kang Chin PLOT: A blind master of the “Flying Guillotine” searches for the One-Armed Boxer, disrupting a martial arts tournament in the process....
View ArticleCAPSULE: THE LAST DRAGON (1985)
AKA Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon DIRECTED BY: Michael Schultz FEATURING: Taimak, Vanity, Julius Carry, Christopher Murney PLOT: Leroy Green (nicknamed “Bruce Leroy”), a kung fu student in Harlem,...
View Article301. FANTASY MISSION FORCE (1983)
Mi ni te gong dui; AKA Dragon Attack “If it sounds ridiculous, that’s only because it was.”– Jackie Chan on Fantasy Mission Force (quoted in Keith Bailey, “The Unknown Movies”) DIRECTED BY: Yen-Ping...
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